How about with an <input type='textarea' name='xyz' /> which I then
write to a file abc under uploads/folder1/folder2 and want to insert
into the db.doc.filename, which is of type 'upload'?
On Jan 7, 8:54 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> If you have an <input type="file" name="xyz"/> represented as a
> FieldStorage in request.vars.xyz you can do
>
> db.doc.insert(filename=db.doc.filename.store
> (request.vars.xyz.file,request.vars.xyz.filename))
>
> On Jan 7, 1:37 am, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > # model
> > db.define_table('doc',
> > Field('title','string'),
> > Field('filename','upload')
> > )
>
> > #controller
> > text_form=SQLFORM.factory(Field('text_in','text',db.doc))
> > file_form=SQLFORM.factory(db.doc)
> > ...
> > if text_form.accepts(request.vars,formname='text_form'):
> > #insert data into the doc table
> > ...
> > if file_form.accepts(request.vars,formname='file_form'):
> > # etc
>
> > The view has custom forms for both text_form and file_form.
>
> > The question is ... how to properly insert data into the doc table in
> > the case of the text_form? text_form.vars.text_in has the results of
> > textarea form field. These data are easily stored in an uploads/
> > file.txt file. The question is how to make the db.doc.filename field
> > point to the uploads/file.txt file such that it will be consistent
> > with a true file upload vs. a text field upload? Just inserting the
> > name of the uploads/file.txt into the db.doc.filename field isn't the
> > right way. (Hope this is clear enough.)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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